At Camperdown they met a much stronger British fleet under admiral Adam Duncan.
Adam | Adam Smith | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Vickers Viscount | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Adam and Eve | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Adam Mickiewicz | Adam Sandler | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | viscount | Adam Lambert | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Adam-12 | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Adam Ant | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester |
This is because Adam Duncan (1 July 1731 - 4 August 1804), defeated the Dutch fleet off there on 11 October 1797 in the Battle of Camperdown.
The expedition was under the command of Admiral Adam Duncan and the Duke of York.
The Battle of Camperdown was an important naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off Camperduin on the North Holland coast on 11 October 1797 between a British fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter.
In 1790 he took command of HMS Sheerness and in 1796 became flag captain of HMS Venerable under Admiral Adam Duncan and was heavily engaged at the Battle of Camperdown the following year.